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Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Western Liberal Democracies (Hardcover)
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Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Western Liberal Democracies (Hardcover)
Series: Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
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This volume explores some of the tensions and pressures of
citizenship in Western liberal democracies. Citizenship has adopted
many guises in the Western context, although historically
citizenship is attached only to some variant of democracy. How
democracy is configured is thus at the core of citizenship.
Beginning in ancient Greece, citizenship is attached to the notion
of a public sphere of deliberation, open only to a small number of
males. Nonetheless, we take from these origins an understanding of
citizenship that is attached to friendship, preservation of a
distinct community, and adherence to law. These early conceptions
of citizenship in the west have been dramatically altered in the
modern context by the ascendancy of individual rights and equality,
expanding the inclusiveness of definition of citizenship. The
universality of rights claims has led to debate about the
legitimacy of the nation state and questioning of borders. A
further development in our understanding of citizenship, and one
that has shifted citizenship studies considerably in the last few
decades, is the backlash against the universalism of rights in the
defense of cultural recognition within democratic polities.
Multiculturalism as a broad spectrum of citizenship studies defends
the autonomy and recognition of cultural, and sometimes religious,
identity within an overarching scheme of rights and equality. This
collection draws upon the many threads of citizenship in the
Western tradition to consider how all of them are still extant, and
contentious, in contemporary liberal democracy.
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